Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 1 Jan 1997 03:20:12 -0500 | From | "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <> | Subject | Re: Serious ext2fs problem |
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From: Chris Adams <cadams@ro.com> Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 13:21:15 -0600 (CST)
Once the errors start happening, they keep happening at the same place over and over again. However, if I stop INN, umount the drive, mount the drive, and start INN, everything is happy (I had it giving me the above error twice everytime I tried to tell INN to "go"). Since I umounted the drive and remounted it, it has been running just fine for ~24 hours. That doesn't seem like hardware to me.
On the contrary, this sounds very much like a hardware error, where the SCSI bus, the SCSI controller, the DMA transfer, or your PCI/ISA bus somehow flipped a bit on read, and the corrupted disk transfer got stuck in your buffer cache.
Since unmounting and remounting the filesystem fixed the problem, this most certainly exonerates e2fsck and the ext2 filesystem code, at least as far as the theory that the ext2 kernel code is detecting some wierd error condition which e2fsck isn't fixing.
- Ted
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